THE SOCIODEMOGRAPHIC PROFILE OF LUNG CANCER

Abstract

Background: At our tertiary care hospital we receive a large number of lung cancer patients, mostly in poor general conditions; hence we decided to conduct this study to perform a comprehensive evaluation of the demographic profile of lung cancer at our institute, Institute of respiratory disease (IRD), Swai Man Singh Medical (SMS) College and Hospital

Methods: This study was conducted at Institute of Respiratory Disease (IRD), Swai Mansingh (SMS) Medical Collage, Jaipur after taking necessary permission from Ethical Committee and Research Review Board of SMS Medical College,   Jaipur.

Results: Mean age of the patients was 61.4±6.8; it was higher in male 61.60±6.7. Out of 105 patients majority of patients were (85.7 %) male. Most of the patients (72.4%) were belonged to rural area .In context of education it is indicated that about 36 % of the patients were primary school educated while 25.7 to 26.7 constituted high & middle school respectively followed by graduate & illiterates (5.7 %) respectively

Conclusion: We concluded that lung cancer was commonly found in elderly male belong to low socio-economic status

Keywords: Lung cancer, Male, SES